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Protest march of the Eurosceptic right-wing, led by Jaroslaw Kaczyński,
for support of the pro-governmental measures.
photo: (www.vosizneias.com)
states of the European Union. This includes official opposition of the two largest parties DOSSIER
the autocrat Viktor Obran, who is facing of the Labourists and the Conservatives.
with similar charges, and the vote of David The partial successes of Le Pen in France
Cameron is also necessary, who previously and Podemos in Spain, although they still
expressed suspicion about the appropriate- do not manage to impose their option to
ness of the existence of such a procedure, the broader electorate, they are a strong
and he is also under political pressure of threat for the “mainstream” parties and
the Eurosceptics due to the success of the the political establishment in these coun-
Brexit referendum. tries. Unlike these examples, Viktor Orban
in Hungary and Tsipras in Greece have the
EUROSCEPTICISM AS A PROBLEM power and they are one of the main pro-
OF THE EUROPEAN UNION moters of Euroscepticism inside the Euro-
pean Union. The fact that less than a year
The new wave of political populism, ago, Poland headed by Jaroslaw Kaczyński
which has affected the European conti- also joined this Eurosceptic company, firm-
nent, is not a new phenomenon anymore, ly confirms that the new wave of Euroscep-
rather it is a political reality whose mani- ticism, which comes from the two sides of
festations can be recognized practically the political spectrum, is not an experimen-
in every European country. Almost every- tal phenomenon of the electorate, rather
where this doctrine is accompanied by a an essential political articulation of the nu-
pronounced Euroscepticism and recogniz- merous European population that does not
able anti-democratic paradigms, which manage to adjust to the quick moderniza-
are a direct confrontation with the basic tion, globalization, and the European inte-
premises and fundamental values that the gration, and is prepared to waive from the
European Union rests on. In the United numerous civilization contributions of the
Kingdom, for example, this political doc- modern democracy for the purpose of its
trine, although it failed to impose to the political need. This is a serious challenge of
electorate as a separate political option the European Union, which will undoubt-
during the conquering of the political pow- edly define the future political movements,
er, still it managed to penetrate within the and will have essential importance in the
two greatest political parties and to affect formation of the future political doctrines
their political discourse. This, as we have and platforms in the Old Continent.
seen later, resulted in success of the ref-
erendum vote for the United Kingdom to Miroslav Sazdovski
leave the European Union, despite of the
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